CMDA - Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions
Pre-Field Orientation for New Healthcare Missionaries
hosted by: Doug Lindberg
November 6 2023 8:00 AM - November 9 2023 9:00 AM
Main Building ATCR 200
Meeting Overview
Join fellow outgoing healthcare missionaries and veteran missionary faculty for what could be the most valuable four days you'll spend as you prepare to leave for the field.
The transition into life as a cross cultural missionary along with your first few years of service are a critical period. Healthcare missionaries face unique opportunities and challenges that can make this transition particularly intense. You’ve been called by the Lord to go. Your theological preparation, formal or informal, and your training in healthcare have built your foundation for service. Your sending agency adds to this, helping you understand how your role fits into the bigger picture of Kingdom building that your team endeavors to accomplish.
But intentionally preparing to meet the unique challenges that healthcare missionaries face is critical. Drawing boundaries even in the face of incredible need, thinking about team dynamics, protecting your family and relationships, preventing moral injury and burnout, exploring the interplay between culture and healthcare, and effectively aligning medicine and ministry are among the important topics many missionaries haven’t deeply considered. These are potential landmines that can hamper your ministry effectiveness or even cut short your missionary service.
This gathering will provide you with tools, knowledge, and relationships that you'll find to be invaluable. You’ll also find camaraderie with others who, like you, are about to step into the amazing adventure that is life as a healthcare missionary. Don’t miss this opportunity to invest four days in preparing yourself for years of effective, fruitful, and healthy ministry for the Kingdom!
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